java.net.URLDecoder Example

Vaibhav KulkarniFebruary 5th, 2015Last Updated: February 5th, 2015

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URLDecoder is a utility class for HTML form decoding. This class contains static methods for decoding a String from the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format.

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This example was implemented using the following tools :

Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler)
JDK 1.4 or greater

1. Example of URLDecoder

We are going to decode string in this example. Create a java class named URLDecoderExample and paste the following code.

URLDecoderExample.java:

package com.example.javacodegeeks;
 
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
 
public class URLDecoderExample {
    public static void main(String args[])throws UnsupportedEncodingException
    {
        System.out.println(URLDecoder.decode("special+chars%3A+%26%25*+", "UTF-8"));
    }
}

In above example we are decoding string in UTF-8 format.

output:

1	`special chars: &%*`

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This was an example of URLDecoder in Java.

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You can download the full source code of this example here:URLDecoderExample.zip

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java.net.URLDecoder Example

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1. Example of URLDecoder

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